automatic reverse and forwarding zones

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>>On 28.10.22 08:26, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>>>BIND 9 have support for writing plugins, and we would accept a 
>>>well written plugin that would allow generating the forward/reverse plugins on the fly.
>>>
>>>There’s already a feature request for it here: 
>>>https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/1586

>On 28. 10. 22 9:29, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>this request for ipv4 too.
>>
>>I really don't think making generic named for ipv6 addresses within 
>>range bigger then e.g. /112 (64Ki addresses) makes any sense.
>>
>>prehaps it may for small subsets of IP addresses
>>
>>/64 is 18446744073709551616 addresses, that can't be scanned in 
>>meaningful time and this number of DNS records would just mess up 
>>any DNS servers' memory.
>>
>>making BIND resilient against overflowing memory this way would make 
>>more sense than creating generic addresses.

On 07.11.22 15:06, Petr Špaček wrote:
>Yes, that's exactly why plugin is needed. The plugin can generate 
>answers on the fly without having all of them in memory.

what about BIND receiving those records? 

I don't want my resolving DNS server to fill out cache by reverse records of 
any remote ipv6 range/ranges.

We'd need to clean those too.

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